Ishizu said that he may be right, but she has long been prepared for the worst
The risk here is that turn three is too late to have a 2/2, but the ability to potentially exile enemy threats could tip things into making this card a bit of a monster
See, all this swarming is in service of Pumpking the Great Ghost King, who is stellar removal (or a means to reset CotH) that also searches, and his most common target is appropriately Call of the Forgotten
Between the variety of anthem effects among Elf creatures and Menace requiring two creatures to block Lathril, its easy to generate several tokens a turn in many board states
But Neo 1 exists in both versions, so it is safe to say that the change happened sometime after Neo 1 first printing
These cards are highly prioritized when it comes to Deck Building